Old Fashioned Quotes - Page 6

• I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.

  Kwame

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Guitar, Play

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

  Prince Charles

  Rose, Bed, Lotuses

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• Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

  Helen Dunmore

  Country, Delight, Literature

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• It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.

  Mia Kirshner

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Nuts

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Eden, House

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1131, Harvard University Press

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• This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Kings, Kitchen, Care

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'I like a kebab as much as the next person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sunshine, Air, Beats

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Different, Agents

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Men, Land

  Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.

  Prince Philip

  Silly, Book, Ideas

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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• President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Cloning

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  Barry Hannah

  Fun, Writing, Jumping

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• I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

  Katie Holmes

  World, Mail, Computer

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• Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Running, Growing Up, School

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• When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

  Sondre Lerche

  Writing, Concerts, Feels

  "Sondre Lerche’s Barn Identity". Interview with Chloe Eichler, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still busy with a truth in photography.

  Thomas Ruff

  Photography, Believe, Quality

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• The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.

  Terry Teachout

  Black, Different, Problem

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Teeth, Gaps, Facts

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• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Eras, Virtue, Grows

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• All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

  Peter Warlock

  Yesterday, Sound, Three

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• Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can enter into godliness is by turning to God as a repentant sinner and receiving the Saviour He has provided in the Gospel. Therefore the crying need of our degenerate times is for a revival of true old-fashioned, Christ- centered, Bible preaching that will call upon all men everywhere to repent in view of that coming day when God will judge the world in righteousness by His Risen Son.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Son, Men

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• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Character, Gay, Sitcom

  Source: collider.com

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